Twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change
Convention and second meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol
United Nations Office at Nairobi, Gigiri, Kenya | 6-17 November 2006

On Monday, the COP/MOP plenary convened to consider the Russian proposal
on voluntary commitments. There were also contact groups and informal
consultations throughout the day and into the night on issues such as
the Adaptation Fund, adaptation programme of work, Annex I
communications, AWG issues, capacity building, the CDM, Decision 1/CP.10
(in relation to response measures), deforestation, education and public
awareness (UNFCCC Article 6), the financial mechanism, Joint
Implementation Supervisory Committee (JISC), Kazakhstan's base year,
review of the Protocol (Article 9), Special Climate Change Fund, and
technology transfer.

Above: Participants in a small breakout group from the contact
group on capacity building worked to develop agreed text in a corridor
during the evening.

Parties met in small group consultations throughout the day and in a
contact group in the evening. No agreement was reached on the draft
conclusions, decision or terms of reference.

Informal Consultations on the Financial Mechanism and Adaptation Fund

Trigg Talley, United States.

Co-Chair Tina Guthrie discussed draft text with participants.

Bernarditas de Castro-Müller, Philippines for G-77/China,
consulted with Co-Chairs Adrian Macey, New Zealand and Philip Gwage,
Uganda, of the contact group on the Adaptation Fund.

Informal Consultations on the Adaptation Five-Year Programme of Work

UNEP/ICRAF Press Briefing on Rainwater Harvesting

UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner and an ICRAF representative were
joined by Elizabeth Khaka and Agnes Mosoni Loirket, participants in a
pilot rainwater harvesting project among Maasai women.

Climate Action Network Canada press briefing.

Executive Secretary Meeting with NGOs

Participants from NGOs met with UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer,
and welcomed him to his new post.

Booths

European Space Agency

World Meteorological Organization

UNEP Tunza Programme for Children and Youth

ENB bits

IISD Reporting Services Deputy Director Chris Spence and ENB writer
Miquel Muñoz discussed the conference with a visiting group of
students from Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies.